Whether I'm writing a novel about a guy mourning the death of his father or whether I'm writing a show about people… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
In my standup work, I always do these characters, older people who are just off to the side. It's easier to write… — Billy Crystal Copy Share Image
You don't service a big, fun premise comedy and then shoot yourself in the foot with too much irony. You need the… — Shawn Levy Copy Share Image
No writer besides Shakespeare has created more memorable characters attached to vices and virtues. In even their least sympathetic characters, one senses… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
I'm a big kid, I'm a kid at heart, so I still love the classic family films, such as the great Warner… — Corey Feldman Copy Share Image
When good things come in, my agent calls or sends me the script. But I allow them to sort through the offers… — Megan Fox Copy Share Image
Performing comedy in San Francisco to begin with is pretty wild. You've got to - you've got the human game preserve to… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
Every story I write starts with a dilemma or a theme. Once I am convinced that this is the issue that is… — Siegfried Lenz Copy Share Image
I like doing them and they're ridiculous and the actors can improvise a lot, and they don't have to be really realistic… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
I always swore I would never write a book. But I read Clare Balding's and it was really interesting and so prettily… — Jennifer Saunders Copy Share Image
If you steal other people's characters, it doesn't work with the context of the scripts and what is written, so I wanted… — Tamsin Egerton Copy Share Image
I always think of my characters as alive human beings and try to generate questions around their life and understand their socio-political… — Abhishek Banerjee Copy Share Image
Guy Gavriel Kay's 'Tigana' is, in my opinion, one of the best, if not the best fantasy novel ever written. It's beautifully… — David B. Coe Copy Share Image
All my main characters are people I'd love to sit around having coffee with. They are people who will tell you honestly… — Katherine Center Copy Share Image
I've been very lucky enough to do all kinds of movies. All the movies that I've done have been very different, and… — Dakota Fanning Copy Share Image
I'm Dr. David Hanson, and I build robots with character. And by that, I mean that I develop robots that are characters,… — David Hanson Copy Share Image
A lot of my comic influences are distinctly American: Woody Allen and Bob Hope, for example. They were always the underdogs who… — Stephen Merchant Copy Share Image
I've always been fascinated by young women who come to New York. The characters in 'Lipstick Jungle' were once young women who… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
he beauty of this world [of comics] is there are so many stories to tell, and there's so many wonderful characters. Wonderful… — Bruno Heller Copy Share Image
Acting is fascinating to me. I love unlocking the mysteries with characters and finding out what would be the most intriguing aspect… — Amanda Schull Copy Share Image
Part of me wants to be married and have everybody around the table for Christmas. But when you're married, your life becomes… — Cindy Williams Copy Share Image
When my characters are questioning things, it's not me leading up to an answer; it's me asking those same questions and letting… — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
I like playing characters who are fractured, broken. I find that more relatable, for some reason. I don't feel that I'm like… — Jamie Dornan Copy Share Image
Watching 'Doctor Who' in the United States meant I was always behind the times - PBS didn't get new episodes until two… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
Male critics and men in the publishing industry want from their women writers what they want from their wives. I'm interested in… — Kate Braverman Copy Share Image
I suppose that the sympathetic/unsympathetic debate about characters sometimes feels to me like a misstatement of purpose. I always think of truly… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
As an actor, I've always wanted to do characters that would help me find my connection with others and connect all of… — Forest Whitaker Copy Share Image
When I'm playing comedy, I never do 'jokes.' Sometimes I'll deliver a line in a way I think is more likely to… — Bruce McGill Copy Share Image
You have to always try to think about them like real people first, and not just heroes. They have to be real… — Greg Berlanti Copy Share Image
What I believe will make my acting career successful going forward is hard work. I like to challenge myself. Then it's the… — Barkhad Abdi Copy Share Image
I found school quite tough, but Saturday night was movie night, and I started to empathise with the characters on screen. I… — Joseph Mawle Copy Share Image
Whether it's a kid in high school who doesn't have any friends and finds friends in my characters, or a guy in… — R. A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
I am a cisgender woman who has always had a lot of female friends. While many of us have traits in common,… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
“Most of the world’s problems are caused by people who made education compulsory, but personal development optional. Because of them, we have… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
We do various kinds of research during the planning stage. We consider the inclusion of characters that feature in games being developed… — Masahiro Sakurai Copy Share Image
When you do anything creative, you really have to live entirely in that world. I think my ability to do that is… — Stephan Pastis Copy Share Image
Characters begin as voices, then gain presence by being viewed in others' eyes. Characters define one another in dramatic contexts. It is… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I've always been incredibly crazy about the fact that I'd have any fans at all. It says to me that the characters… — Elizabeth Mitchell Copy Share Image
I like dialogue in novels. I wanted to avoid laying history on with a trowel - appearing to be lecturing, as opposed… — Elliot Perlman Copy Share Image
I'm no longer going to play thugs or debauched cops that I can't possibly make complex characters. I'm bigger than that. I… — Isaiah Washington Copy Share Image